Dr. Asif Masood

PERSONALS
Name:	Dr. Asif Masood
Designation:	Head of Department
Department:	Department of Information Security
Phone (off.):	051-561-5233216
Mobile:	0322-5736523
Email:	amasood@mcs.edu.pk
Fax:
HEC Approved Supervisor:	Yes
Detailed CV
INTRODUCTION
Dr Asif Masood did his BE in software Engineering from Military College of Signals (MCS), NUST in 1999. He completed his MS and PhD in Computer Science from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore in 2007. Currently, He is working as Head of Information Security Department at MCS, NUST. He is an active researcher. His research publications include 1 book, 8 book chapters, 18 journal papers and 15 conference papers. In recognition to his research contributions, he was awarded Best Reasearch paper award by HEC in 2011, Research Productivity Award 2010-2011 by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology and Dr M. N. Azam prize in Computer Science in 2009 by Pakistan Academy of Sciences. His bigraphy has been published in Who's Who in the World (in 2009 & 2010) and Top 100 Engineers 2009 by International Biography Centre, Cambridge, England. He is also a reviewer for various international journals and conferences.

Courses/Teaching
Object Oriented Programming Assembly Language Digital Logic Design Computer Organization and Architecture Data Structures Data Communication Automata Theory Digital Image Processing Advance Artificial Intelligence Network Security Advance Operating System
Research & Development
Research Interests Network Security Image registration and Radial Basis Functions Image morphing and warping Virtual Reality Object classification, decomposition and recognition Character recognition (optical and hand written) Curves and surface design Polygonal approximation Computational Geometry
Completed Projects
Reconstruction of fingerprint images Investigation of improvements/enhancements in Elkamchouchi’s signcryption scheme Example based English to Urdu machine translation Automatic detection of traffic congestion in urban areas of Pakistan Robust feasture selection for face detection system using memetic algorithm Image Processing based Micro-cracks Detection in Solar Wafers Blast Simulation Software (Army Project) Development of testbed for PCR Test (Army Project) Decision Support System for Monitoring and Control of Traffic in the City RFID Based Vehicle Automated Monitoring and Surveillance System SoftGuard – GSM and GPS based Vehicle Security System Fat curve model for representation of Arabic/Urdu characters Mosaic image construction from video Design and implementation of a threat evaluation and weapon assignment application using multi-target perspective to optimally neutralize air borne Robust fragment based correlation tracking in cluttered imagery Optimal representation of boundaries/outlines using dynamic programming Creating multi-resolution mosaics from videos
Current Projects
Optimal Polygonal Approximation using Error Histograms Multi-Resolution Mosaicing Fitting Fat Curves Development of mobile calling application using mobile VoIP Design and Development of Framework for Robotics using Cloud Services Urdu OCR System Eye Tracking and Identification of Gaze Point Optimization of Traffic Flow by Real-Time Updation of Signal Timings Development of a Growing B-spline Model using Approximation
Future Projects
Wireless transmission of Audio Bluetooth technology Design and development of Toolkit for DNA fingerprinting Adaptive Traffic Signal System for Optimal Flow of Traffic in Urban Areas of Pakistan
Publications
A. Masood, (2008), A growing Bezier curve for efficient curve approximation, NUST Journal of Engineering and Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-11 A. Masood, (2010), “Capturing 2D Objects with Automation: Algorithms and Techniques” USA: VDM Verlag Publisher, ISBN: 978-3-639-26171-4 A. Masood, S. Ejaz, (2010), “An Efficient Algorithm for Robust Curve Fitting using Cubic Bezier Curves” Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6216, pp. 255 – 262, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg A. Masood, W. Kanwal, (2010), “Efficient Representation of Zooming Information in Videos Using Multi Resolution Mosaics” Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6216, pp. 294 – 300, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg H. Naeem, A. Masood, (2010), “An optimal dynamic threat evaluation and weapon scheduling technique”, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 337-342, Elsevier Science A. Masood, S. Ijaz, (2010), “Optimal curve fitting approach to represent outlines of 2D shapes”, Imaging Science Journal, vol 58, no. 6, pp. 308-320, Maney Publishing F. Ahmad, A. Masood, F. Kausar, (2010), “An efficient multi recipient signcryption scheme offering non repudiation”, proc. 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, West Yorkshire, UK, pp. 1577-1581 A. Masood, S. Bukhari, (2011), “Growing B-spline Model for Efficient Approximation of Complex Curves”, proc of 15th International Conference on Information Visualization, London UK U. Ahmed, A. Masood, (2009), “Host based Intrusion Detection using RBF neural networks” proc. 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 48 – 51 R. Malik, A. Masood, (2009), “Fingerprint Enhancement and Reconstruction”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5755: Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications, pp. 660–669, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg H. Naeem, A. Masood, M. Hussain, S.A. Khan, (2009), “A Semi-Automated Dynamic approach to Threat Evaluation and Optimal Defensive Resource Allocation”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5754: Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications. pp. 8–17 , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg M.I. Khan, J. Ahmed, A. Ali, A. Masood, (2009), “Robust Edge-Enhanced Fragment Based Normalized Correlation Tracking in Cluttered and Occluded Imagery”, accepted for publication in International Symposium on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Jeju Island, Korea A. Masood, A.M. Siddiqui, M. Saleem, (2007), A Radial Basis Function for Registration of Local Features in Images, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4872: Advances in Image and Video Technology. pp. 651– 663 , Springer Berlin/Heidelberg M. Sarfraz, A. Masood, M.R. Asim, (2006), A New Approach to Corner Detection, Computational Imaging and Vision vol. 32: Computer Vision and Graphics, pp. 528 – 533, Springer Netherlands A. Masood, S.A. Haq, (2005), Object Coding for Real Time Image Processing Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3687: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, pp. 550–559, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg S.I. Gilani, M. Younas, A. Masood, (2010), “Gender Estimation of Two Dimensional Frontal Facial Images”, GESTS International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 59, no. 2, pp.--- (accepted for publication) M.I. Khan, J. Ahmed, A. Ali, A. Masood, (2009), “Robust Edge-Enhanced Fragment Based Normalized Correlation Tracking in Cluttered and Occluded Imagery”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, vol. 12, pp. 25-34 M. Zafar, A. Masood, (2009), “Interactive English to Urdu Machine Translation using Example-Based Approach”, International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, vol 1, no. 3, pp. 276-283 H. Naeem, A. Masood, M. Hussain, S.A. Khan, (2009), “A Novel Two-Stage Dynamic Decision Support based Optimal Threat Evaluation and Defensive Resource Scheduling Algorithm for Multi Air-borne threats”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 159-166 A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, (2009), Capturing outlines of 2D objects with Bézier cubic approximation, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 704-712, Elsevier Science A.M. Siddiqui, A. Masood, M. Saleem, (2009), A locally constrained radial basis function for registration and warping of images, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 377 – 390, Elsevier Science A. Masood, (2008), Optimized polygonal approximation by dominant point deletion, Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 227 – 239, Elsevier Science M. Rizwan, M. Ilyas, A. Masood, I. Towhata, (2008), An Approach to Digitize Analog Form of Accelerograms Recorded at Tarbela – Pakistan, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 328 – 332, Elsevier Science A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, S.A. Haq, (2008), An efficient technique for capturing 2D Objects, Computers and Graphics, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 93 – 104, Elsevier Science A. Masood, (2008), Dominant point detection by reverse polygonization of digital curves, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 702-715, Elsevier Science M. Rizwan, M. Ilyas, A. Masood, (2008), Design Spectrums Based On Earthquakes Recorded at Tarbela, Mehran University Research Journal Of Engineering & Technology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 199-212 M. Sarfraz, A. Masood, (2007), Capturing outlines of planar images using Bezier cubics, Computers and Graphics, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 719 – 729, Elsevier Science A. Masood, S.A. Haq, (2007), A Novel Approach to Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 264 – 274, Elsevier Science A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, (2007), Corner Detection by Sliding Rectangles along Planar Curves, Computers and Graphics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 440 – 448, Elsevier Science M. Sarfraz, A Masood, M.R. Asim, (2005), A robust and simple corner detection approach, International Journal of Computer Graphics & CAD/CAM, vol.1, no. 1, pp. 37- 45 F. Ahmad, A. Masood, (2009), “A publicly verifiable low cost signcryption scheme ensuring confidentiality”, Accepted for publication in 2nd International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing, Wuhan, China H. Naeem, A. Masood, (2009), “Novel Two-Stage Dynamic Decision Support based Optimal Threat Evaluation and Defensive Resource Scheduling Algorithm for Multi Air-borne threats” proc. 29th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, England A. Masood, R. Hussain, (2009), “Fat Curve Model for Representation of Urdu/Arabic Fonts” proc. 2009 Northeast American Society of Engineering Education Conference, Bridgeport, CT, USA A. Masood, K. Zareef, (2009), “Image Mosaicing using an Efficient Correlation Algorithm”, accepted for publication in the proc. 4th International Conference Geometric Modelling and Imaging, Barcelona, Spain A.M. Siddiqi, M. Saleem, A. Masood, (2007), A Local Transformation Function for Images, Proc. of International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan. pp. 1-5, IEEE Computer Society Press A. Masood, S.A. Haq, (2006), Role of Corner Detection in Capturing Shape Outlines, Proc. of 7th International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing in conjunction with 9th Joint Conference on Information Sciences. Kaohsiung, Taiwan A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, (2006), A Novel Corner Detector Approach using Sliding Rectangles, Proc. of 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Sharjah, UAE, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.621-626 A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, (2005), Capturing Outlines of Arabic Characters by Cubic Bezier Approximation, Proc. of 1st International Conference on Geometric Modeling, Visualization & Graphics in conjunction with 8th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, pp. 1649-1652 A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, S.A. Haq, (2005), Curve Approximation with Quadratic B-splines, Proc. of 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, UK, IEEE Computer Society Press USA, pp 419-424 M. Sarfraz, A. Masood, M.R. Asim, (2004), A Web Based System for Capturing Outlines of 2D Objects, Proc. of International Conference on Information & Computer Science, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, pp. 575 – 586 M. Sarfraz, M.R. Asim, A. Masood, (2004), Piecewise Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves, Proc. of 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, UK, IEEE Computer Society Press USA, pp. 991 – 996 M. Sarfraz, M.R. Asim, A. Masood, (2004), Capturing Outlines using Cubic Bezier Curves, Proc. of 1st International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications, Damascus, Syria, pp. 539 – 540. IEEE Computer Society Press USA
Professional Memberships & Affiliations
Pakistan Engineering Council
Contact Info
Email: amasood[at]mcs.edu.pk Telephone (Off): 051-561-5233216 Telephone (Res): 051-2538981 Mobile #: 0322-5736523

Research Interests